The Role of the Skills Development Facilitator and …

1 The Role of the Skills Development Facilitator and New Developments in Skills Development May 2010 Facilitated by Fasset Handbook The views expressed in this document are not necessarily those of Fasset s. Handbook: The Role of the Skills Development Facilitator 2010 Table of Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS ..TABLE OF ACRONYMS ..INTRODUCTION ..SECTION 1: UNDERSTANDING LEGISLATION, S1. LEGISLATION .. Purpose of the Skills Development Act (1998) Purpose of the Skills Development Act (SDA) as Amended (2008) Purpose of the Skills Development Levies Establishment of Functions of the Ministry-In-Charge.

2 Twenty-three Setas .. Quality Assurance of Education by the Seta2. BACKGROUND OF FASSET .. Seta members .. Seta landscape .. Vision of Fasset .. Mission of Fasset .. Role of the Setas according to the SDA as Fasset objectives ..3. CHANGES IN THE SAQA ACT (1995) Background to the changes in SAQA Act (1995) and the NQF Act (2008) Objectives of the NQF Act (2008) Changes in the NQF Act (2008) Quality councils .. Functions of SAQA .. What is the NQF? .. Fields of learning .. Consultative panels .. Quality assurance.

3 Professional bodies and professional The Occupational Learning System (OLS) Standards-setting ..4. INTERPRETING LEGISLATION ..5. WAY FORWARD ..SECTION 2: ASSESSMENT AND THE NQF1. QUALIFICATIONS AND UNIT Defining Defining unit What is a credit? .. Components of a unit Fundamental, core and elective unit Finding unit Skills programmes .. Foundational Learning Competence (FLC) Learning Programmes Matrix (LPM) Programmes identified in 2. WHAT IS ASSESSMENT? .. What is competence? Forms of What is Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL)?

4 3. WAY FORWARD ..SECTION 3: UNDERSTANDING LEARNERSHIPS1. WHAT IS A LEARNERSHIP? .. The purpose of learnerships?evelopment ..NDING LEGISLATION, STRUCTURES AND of the Skills Development Act (1998) ..Purpose of the Skills Development Act (SDA) as Amended (2008) ..Purpose of the Skills Development Levies Act (SDLA) (1999) ..Establishment of Setas ..Functions of the Setas ..Quality Assurance of Education by the Seta ..Role of the Setas according to the SDA as amended ..(1995) AND THE NQF ACT (2008) ..Background to the changes in SAQA Act (1995) and the NQF Act (2008)Objectives of the NQF Act (2008).

5 Changes in the NQF Act (2008) ..Professional bodies and professional designations ..The Occupational Learning System (OLS)..NT AND THE NQF ..IT STANDARDS ..Defining qualifications ..Defining unit standards ..Components of a unit standard ..Fundamental, core and elective unit standards ..Finding unit standards ..Foundational Learning Competence (FLC) ..Learning Programmes Matrix (LPM) ..Programmes identified in the QCTO: Emerging landscape ..What is competence? ..Forms of assessment ..What is Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL)? ..NDING LEARNERSHIPS.

6 The purpose of learnerships? ..1 .. 1 .. 3 .. 6 TRUCTURES AND RELATIONSHIPS .. 7 .. 7 .. 7 .. 7 .. 9 .. 9 .. 9 .. 10 .. 11 .. 12 .. 12 .. 13 .. 14 .. 14 .. 14 .. 14 .. 16 .. 16 Background to the changes in SAQA Act (1995) and the NQF Act (2008) .. 16 .. 17 .. 18 .. 18 .. 19 .. 20 .. 23 .. 24 .. 24 .. 26 .. 26 .. 27 .. 28 .. 29 .. 30 .. 30 .. 30 .. 31 .. 32 .. 32 .. 34 .. 35 .. 36 .. 36 .. 36 .. 38 .. 38 .. 38 .. 39 .. 40 .. 41 .. 42 .. 42 .. 42 Handbook: The Role of the Skills Development Facilitator 2010 Benefits of Learnerships vs. How to participate in a learnership?

7 2. LEARNERSHIPS AVAILABLE .. Fasset learnerships .. Other Seta Available learnerships3. EMBARKING ON A Selecting a Selecting a learner .. Enrolling learners onto a Learnership agreement Registering the learner on the learnership4. IMPLEMENTING THE Supporting the Reporting and administrationSECTION 4: DEVELOPING THE STRATEGIC ROLFACILITATOR (SDF) ..1. Skills Development Facilitator Appointment of an Function of an SDF .. SDF unit The Association of Skills Development Facilitators of South Africa (ASDFSA) South African Board of Personnel Practitioners (SABPP) American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) Fasset requirements for SDFs2.

8 THE TRAINING COMMITTEE .. Role of the training Constitution of the training Scope of a Objectives ..SECTION 5: DEVELOPING AND IMPLEMENTING 1. UNDERSTANDING THE Development OF A Benefits of planning .. Planning process ..2. COMPLETING AND SUBMITTING THE Reporting on training Important notes ..SECTION 6: SCARCE AND CRITICAL 1. SCARCE AND CRITICAL Skills ..2. OFO CODES AND Defining the OFO .. Fasset approach to the OFOSECTION 7: LEVIES, GRANTS AND FASSET1. PAYMENT OF THE SDL ..2. INTER-SETA TRANSFERS (ISTS3.)

9 MONEY-GO-ROUND ..4. EMPLOYERS EXEMPT FROM PAYING THE 5. FASSET S Development PROJEC6. FASSET S BEST PRACTICE AWARDS7. SUMMARY OF GRANTS AVAILABLESECTION 8: REFERENCES ..SECTION 9: HANDY RESOURCES evelopment Benefits of learnerships ..Learnerships vs. apprenticeships ..How to participate in a learnership? ..Other Seta learnerships ..Available learnerships ..HIP ..Selecting a learnership ..lling learners onto a learnership ..Learnership agreement procedures ..Registering the learner on the learnership ..NERSHIP ..Supporting the and administration.

10 NG THE STRATEGIC ROLE OF THE Skills Development ..ACILITATOR (SDF) ..Appointment of an SDF ..The Association of Skills Development Facilitators of South Africa (ASDFSA)South African Board of Personnel Practitioners (SABPP) ..American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) ..Fasset requirements for SDFs ..Role of the training committee ..Constitution of the training committee ..Scope of a committee ..NG AND IMPLEMENTING A OF A Skills THE DOCUMENTATION ..Reporting on training implemented ..SCARCE AND CRITICAL Skills ..CODES AND OCCUPATIONAL CATEGORIES.